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+Calbee (food company) : Work Style Reform to Improve Management
IMPP: Hitotsubashi University
This is a brief summary translation of the outline the report "Calbee: Workstyle Report to Improve Management" that was completed with the SciREX fund and appeared in the Hitotsubashi Business Review in September 2017. | Title | Calbee: Work Style Reform to Improve Management |
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| Japanese title | カルビー 経営改革のための働き方改革 |
| Author | Toshikatsu ASAI, Megumi KIMURA |
| Keywords | management reform, diversity, case study |
| Date of publication | September 2017 |
| Publisher | Toyo Keizai Shinpo-sha |
| Series No. | Vol. 65 |
| URL | http://hitotsubashiiir.blogspot.com/2017/09/2017-vol65-no2.html |
| Series name | Hitotsubashi Business Review |
| Abstract | Calbee, founded in 1949, is a top-ranking snack food manufacturer. The company has shown a good result of management reform by implementing continuous growth and high profitability. Mr. Akira Matsumoto, chairman of the company, played an important role for the reform. The reform of cost reduction, innovation, and organizational redesigning was based on the reform of work style. The company evolved from a long-standing "luke warm and sweet company" to "strict and sweet company." The report traces the company's management reform history, focusing on the organizational and environmental designing such as women power and diversity, and how it has developed to show good results.. |
